يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لنَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلࣱ فَاسْتَمِعُواْ لَهُۥٓۖ إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اِ۬للَّهِ لَنْ يَّخْلُقُواْ ذُبَاباࣰ وَلَوِ اِ۪جْتَمَعُواْ لَهُۥۖ وَإِنْ يَّسْلُبْهُمُ اُ۬لذُّبَابُ شَئْاࣰ لَّا يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ مِنْهُۖ ضَعُفَ اَ۬لطَّالِبُ وَالْمَطْلُوبُۖ

O mankind! A similitude is coined, so pay ye heed to it: Lo! those on whom ye call beside Allah will never create a fly though they combine together for the purpose. And if the fly took something from them, they could not rescue it from it. So weak are (both) the seeker and the sought — Pickthall

In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Ḥajj begins at vol. 6, p. 143 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The site’s Arabic edition follows Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ; the reference text quoted here and the matcher behind the Fī Riyāḍ loci are Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim. Content is nearly identical, but verse-boundary numbering diverges in a handful of places. Each locus carries its own witness’s numbering. Page references follow the ten-volume Tunis 2022 printing this site was transcribed from; published scholarship on this text cites the six-volume Tunis 2010 printing, whose pagination is different.